Fish-conveying auto.



O. ZESTEL.

FISH CONVEYING AUTO. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5. m4.

Patented May 29, 1917.

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FISH-CONVEYING AUTO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1917.

Application filed September 5, 1914. Serial No. 860,336.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR Zrsrnma citizen of the United States, residingat Sandusky, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Fish-Conveying Autos, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being badto the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a contrivance for the transportation of livefish.

For many years it has been the practice of fish peddlers to packuncleaned dead fish into carts and haul them about for hours, dependingin warm weather, upon a limited supply of ice to keep the fish fromspoiling. For the want of a modern and sanitary contrivance which wouldenable fish dealers to deliver fish alive and in a healthy condition,the public has been compelled to supply its Wants from these unsanitaryfish carts.

It is the general object of my invention, therefore, to provide aconveyance whereby live fish may be carried from place to place for anydesired length of time and kept in a healthy condition by continuallysupply ing air to the water which contains the fish, in the requiredquantity, regardless of the speed of the conveyance or whether it is inmotion or not.

By properly aerating the water, a great quantity of live fish may beaccommodated in a comparatively small tank; and besides the very readymarket which awaits live fish they demand a considerably higher pricethan dead ones.

I have illustrated an embodiment of my invention in the accompanyingdrawing, wherein the figure represents, in side elevation, a motordriven vehicle having my invention incorporated therein.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents the vehicle, generally, and 2 themotor or engine whereby it is driven. The driving or propelling of thevehicle is accomplished through the rear wheels 3, as usual, and in theembodiment herein shown, the power is transmitted from the motor to therear wheels through the clutch 4L, 5, the driving shaft 6, suitabledifferential gearing inclosed in the casing 7 (the gearing being of anyapproved type, it being deemed unnecessary to show it, therefore),through the jack shaft 8, with its sprocket 9, to the chain 10, whichpasses over the sprocket 11 that held in engagement by the spring 15that surrounds the shaft 6 and is interposed between the rear end of thesleeve extension 5 of said clutch member, and a collar 16 that issecured to the shaft 6. The clutch member 5 is shifted out of engagementwith the member 4 by means of the pedal 17 that is pivoted at 18 and hasa fork exten sion 19 that is operatively connected to the sleeve 5through the collar 20. By pressing the pedal 17 forward, the clutchmember 5 will be moved rearwardly against the tension of the spring 15;and the parts may be held in this position by the engagement of thegravity pawl 21 with the abutment 22. The pawl may be dislodged from theabutment by the driver rocking his foot upon the pedal 17 until his toeengages the extension 23, and depressing the extension slightly. I haveshown this as a convenient method of separating the driving connectionbetween the motor2and the propelling or driving wheels 3, it beingunderstood,

however, that other means may be employed for the same purpose withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

Situated upon the rear of the vehicle is the water tank 25 that isprovided with covers 26 which are adapted to have their free edgesclamped to the adjacent portion of the tank by means of suitablefastening devices, one of such devices being shown at 27. Located uponthe bottom of the tank is an aerating device 28, which may be in theform of a tubular frame that is provided with a plurality of airdistributers 29 and which has an inlet connection at 30. Such a deviceis shown in my copending application, Serial No. 836,081, filed May 1,191 1. The inlet 30 is connected to the end of an air supply pipe 31, bymeans of a flexible connector 32, which may consist of a length ofrubber tubing that is slipped over the end of the connection 30 and theend of the pipe 31. This form of connection makes it very easy to removethe aerating device 28, for the purpose of cleaning the tank or drainingthe device.

Air is supplied to the aerating device from the pump 35 that is mountedupon a shelf 36, shown herein as supported from the side of the enginecrank case. The pump 35 is of the rotary type, and is driven from thecrank shaft 37 of the engine through mechanism which will now bedescribed.

A disk 38 is secured to the shaft of the pump, and a similar disk 39 iscarried upon the end of a shaft 40 which is supported by the brackets41, from the shelf 36. This shaft 40 is 0 eratively connected to theengine shaft 3' through the sprocket wheels 42 and 43 and the chain 44.The shaft 40 and the shaft of the pump 35 are in vertical alinement butare in different horizontal planes, as clearly illustrated. Guidedwithin a hollow boss 45, which rises from the shelf 36, is a slidablepost 46, which carries near its upper end, a transmission roller 47.Thepost 46 is in the common, vertical plane of the shaft 40 and theshaft of the pump 35, and is movable from the periphery of either diskto within a slight distance of its center. The movements of the post 46are under the control of a governor 48, of ordinary form, that islocated upon the shaft 40, the connections between the sliding sleeve 49of the governor and the post 46, being through the bell crank 50 whichis pivoted to a bracket 51 that depends from the lower surface of theshelf 36.

When the engine is running slow and the governor 48 is elongated throughthe influence of its spring 52, the bell crank 50 will be rocked so asto move the post 46 downward with the transmission roller 47 operatingnear the center of the disk 38 and being driven from near the peripheryof the disk 39, a given speed being transmitted to the pump 35 while theparts are in this position. It will follow, therefore, that, as thegovernor responds to the centrifugal action of its weights, the sleeve49 and the bell crank 50 will be moved in the opposite direction toelevate the post 46 and move the transmission roller 47 toward theperiphery of the driven disk 38 and toward the center of the drivingdisk 39. This will result in the maintenance of the given speed of thepump, regardless of the increased speed of the engine.

The embodiment of my invention shown herein, is largely diagrammatic andconventional and I do not limit myself to the construction illustratedand described, further than required by the terms of the annexed claimsand the state of the prior art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. Apparatus fortransporting live fish comprising, in combination, a vehicle and a watertank carried thereby, a motor and vehicle propelling mechanism alsocarried by the vehicle, separable connections between the motor and saidmechanism, a pump that is operatively connected to the motor, and meansfor conducting air from the pump to the water within the tank.

2. Apparatus for transporting live fish comprising, in combination, avehicle and a water tank carried thereby, a motor and vehicle propellingmechanism also carried by the vehicle, separable connections between themotor and said mechanism, a pump that is operatively connected to themotor, mechanism whereby the relative speeds of the pump and the motormay be varied, and means for conducting air from the pump to the waterwithin the tank.

3. Apparatus for transporting live fish comprising, in combination, avehicle and a water tank carried thereby, a motor and vehicle propellingmechanism also carried by the vehicle, separable connections between themotor and said mechanism, a pump, means for conducting air from the pumpto the water within the tank, and governor controlled drivingconnections between the pump and the motor shaft for maintaining aconstant speed of the pump regardless of the variations in the speed ofthe motor.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

OSCAR ZISTEL.

Witnesses:

BRENNAN B. Wns'r, IRENE L. STOBLMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). O.

